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Languages : en
Pages : 54

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Author: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Library. Rare Book Room
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Category : Rare books
Languages : en
Pages : 810

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Author: Edmond Halley
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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Author: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 814

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Author: John Ashton
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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Author: Robert Collis
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004215670
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 605

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Drawing on recent scholarship on the history of Western esotericism and religious studies on the importance of millenarian thought in Early Modern Europe, this study provides an innovative re-examination of Peter the Great’s Court in early eighteenth-century Russia.

Author: Adam Smyth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521761727
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 233

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Explores life-writing forms - almanacs, financial accounts, commonplace books and parish registers - which emerged during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Author: Alan C. Bowen
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004400567
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 783

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In Hellenistic Astronomy: The Science in Its Contexts, renowned scholars address questions about what the ancient science of the heavens was and the numerous contexts in which it was pursued.

Author: William James Dampier
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Category : Artists with disabilities
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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Author: Joshua Nall
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822986612
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 259

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Mass media in the late nineteenth century was full of news from Mars. In the wake of Giovanni Schiaparelli’s 1877 discovery of enigmatic dark, straight lines on the red planet, astronomers and the public at large vigorously debated the possibility that it might be inhabited. As rivalling scientific practitioners looked to marshal allies and sway public opinion—through newspapers, periodicals, popular books, exhibitions, and encyclopaedias—they exposed disagreements over how the discipline of astronomy should be organized and how it should establish acceptable conventions of discourse. News from Mars provides a new account of this extraordinary episode in the history of astronomy, revealing how major transformations in astronomical practice across Britain and America were inextricably tied up with popular scientific culture and a transatlantic news economy that enabled knowledge to travel. As Joshua Nall argues, astronomers were journalists, too, eliding practice with communication in consequential ways. As writers and editors, they played a pivotal role in the emergence of a “new astronomy” dedicated to the study of the physical constitution and life history of celestial objects, blurring harsh distinctions between those who produced esoteric knowledge and those who disseminated it.